“Bust of a Woman”

Mathurin Moreau (1822-1912)

In bronze, with brown patina. Signed on the reverse. Mounted on a black-veined red marble plinth.

Mathurin Moreau was a French sculptor, who was born in Dijon on 18 November 1822, and was the son of noted sculptor Jean Baptiste Moreau. In 1841, he entered the École des Beaux Arts in Paris and, the following year, won the Second Grand Prix de Rome with his sculpture Diodemus removing the Palladium. Several of his works remain on public display in Paris, among them Cologne on the facade of the Gare du Nord train station, L’Océanie in the courtyard of the Musée d’Orsay, and Zénobe Gramme in the Père Lachaise cemetery. In 1897, he received a medal of honor from the Paris Salon and was elected mayor of the 19th arrondissement of Paris, a position he held until his death on February 14, 1912.